School phobia: patterns of family functioning.
Seventy-six families of children with school phobia were evaluated with the Family Assessment Measure. Mothers and fathers, as separate groups, rated clinically significant dysfunction in the parent-child relationship in the areas of role performance and values and norms. There were no significant differences between intact and single-parent families on ratings of family dysfunction. There was significantly less family dysfunction as rated by mothers and by children if the child had a diagnosis of pure anxiety disorder compared to families of school phobic children in other diagnostic categories.
Bernstein
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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.
Svingen
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Garfinkel
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D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012380:Role; D012945:Social Values